[quote]NEW ORLEANS — BP PLC said Friday it might someday drill again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
"There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."
The vast oil reservoir beneath the blown well is still believed to hold nearly $4 billion worth of crude. With the company and its partners facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, the incentive to exploit the wells and the reservoir could grow.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, said he had no information on BP's future plans.
"I would assume that's a policy issue related to the management of the lease," he told reporters. "Frankly, it hasn't been raised to my level at this point. I'm not sure I can comment on it."
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Suttles has spent more than three months managing BP's response efforts on the Gulf but is now returning to his day job in Houston, the company said. Mike Utsler, a vice president who has been running BP's command post in Houma, La., since April, will replace him.
The personnel shift comes as BP appears to be gaining the upper hand on plugging the leak, triggered when an oil rig exploded off Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the massive spill.
Engineers this week poured in cement to complete a plug at the top of the well bore as part of a process dubbed a "static kill," but they needed to wait at least a day for it to harden. Once it does, crews can finish the last stretch of a relief well intersecting the blown well just above the oil's source, injecting more mud and cement from the bottom to form a final plug.
Suttles confirmed Friday that crews for now plan to use the 18,000-foot relief well to seal off with mud and cement the underground reservoir feeding the blown well.
The company had been hedging on how exactly it would use the relief well, which it has been digging for three months, as federal officials insisted it should be used to perform the so-called "bottom kill."
If not used for the bottom kill, the relief wells could have conceivably offered a way for BP or another company to pump out oil and sell it, an idea unlikely to sit well with Gulf Coast residents and families of workers who died on the rig.
The Interior Department on Friday tamped down any hope that BP could still use the blown well.
"The well is almost dead," spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said. "Under no circumstances are we going to allow them to reopen the well to extract oil and gas."
The static kill started Tuesday with engineers pumping enough mud down the top of the well to push the crude back to its underground source. Suttles said engineers plan to monitor the cement newly pumped in from the top and hope to test the plug with a burst of pressure Friday afternoon to make sure it's sealed.[/quote]
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BP:
Bullshit Politics.
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From what I understand, they're trying to make up for losses. As long as the machinery is stable, why not?
Makes sense, there is more money down there than most of us can imagine. As long as the equipment is maintained and in proper working order, why not?
I don't see why they can't drill there again, just because there was a huge accident there doesn't make it a danger zone that we can never go back to.
I hope they don't fuck up again.
They'd be stupid not to. It's not like the whole reservoir is prone to disaster because one little wellhead popped.
As long as they stop paying inspectors to pass their equipment fine by me.
As long as they don't fuck up again, I think it's fine
I read this
[QUOTE]"There's lots of oil and gas here,"[/QUOTE]
and then this
[QUOTE]The well is almost dead," spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said. "Under no circumstances are we going to allow them to reopen the well to extract oil and gas."[/QUOTE]
What the fuck is the deal :psyduck:
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What the fuck is the deal :psyduck:[/QUOTE]
They're talking about the currently drilled well, if the continue drilling, an new rig would be placed down the line, where there isn't a dip in supply.
As long as they keep their shit together this time it should be fine
dont do it its haunted.
Tighten safety regulations, then there shouldn't be an issue with letting them drill again.
Thanks to the spill killing everything, oil's the only way that sea's going to be productive
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